Clay minerals constituent an essential component of clayey rocks. Macroscopic mechanical behaviors those rocks can be significantly driven by local deformation and failure processes clay minerals. In this study, the behavior Montmorillonite (MMT) crystal at atomistic scale is investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. accordance with macroscopic laboratory tests, both triaxial comp...

mineral paragenesis of rodingitized basic rocks of iranian ophiolites are presented and metasomatic reactions between ca+2 bearing aqueous fluids issued during serpentinization of host ultramafic rock – with magmatic minerals of basic rocks leading to present paragenesis of rodingites are discussed. it is concluded that ca+2 rich aqueous fluid in equilibrium with serpentinite has high ca+2 chem...

Experimental evidence shows that blocking temperature-relaxation time theory for single-domain magnetite can grossly underestimate laboratory thermal demagnetization temperatures of a present day viscous remanence in Devonian limestones of New York State. Thermoviscous remagnetization at moderately elevated burial temperatures during the late Paleozoic cannot therefore be readily excluded for t...

Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion (NMRD) is strongly sensitive to the microscopic wettability of oil and brine bearing carbonate rocks. Exploring a very large range of low frequency enables isolating the typical NMRD dispersion features, 1/T1Surf, associated to the different processes of molecular surface dynamics. This allows a separation of the surface and bulk microdynamics of oil and w...

Nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants that are susceptible to biological and abiotic reduction. Prior works have found that for the abiotic reduction of NACs, the logarithm of the NACs’ rate constants correlate with one-electron reduction potential values of the NACs (EH,NAC1) according to linear free energy relationships (LFERs). Here, we extend the applicati...